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Show Fertilizer Necessary For Utah Farms The farmers of Utah are for the first time facing the problem of commercial com-mercial fertilizers. In certain parts of the state, especially in the trucking truck-ing areas, farm manure is not plentiful. plenti-ful. Because of this, according to Professor Geo. Stewart of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, there is almost constant demand for information as to what sort of commercial com-mercial fertilizer to use and how much. Unfortunately, there is no real knowledge that permits an accurate answer to this question. The Experiment Ex-periment Station has just obtained a farm at Logan on which experimental experi-mental work with commercial fertilizers fertili-zers is about to begin, but several years will be necessary before anything any-thing like definite information is acquired. ac-quired. This is by no means an easy task because different crops in the same soil and the same crop on different dif-ferent soils require different fertilizer ferti-lizer treatments. Sometimes only nitrogen, sometimes some-times only phosphoric acid, sometimes some-times only potash is required. The application of substances not needed is waste of money for the farmer and is a bad advertisement for the fertilizer merchant who must depend on profitable increases in yield to build up his business. Haphazard sale of complete fertilizers is expensive ex-pensive to everybody concerned. In the end the farmer will purchase phosphorus, nitrogen, or potassium and not just "fertilizer." |